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Yeah, I stand corrected, like he said in the video. In the case that the CPU is the bottle neck, faster ram helps. Thanks for the great video :)

 

Though it would of helped me stand by your statement if they was all the same CPU and different RAM speeds..

There was two sets of identical i3s but the FX board they had refused to run over 1600MHz! :P

Lake-V-X6-10600 (Gaming PC)

R23 score MC: 9190pts | R23 score SC: 1302pts

R20 score MC: 3529cb | R20 score SC: 506cb

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Case: Cooler Master HAF XB Evo Black / Case Fan(s) Front: Noctua NF-A14 ULN 140mm Premium Fans / Case Fan(s) Rear: Corsair Air Series AF120 Quiet Edition (red) / Case Fan(s) Side: Noctua NF-A6x25 FLX 60mm Premium Fan / Controller: Sony Dualshock 4 Wireless (DS4Windows) / Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo / CPU: Intel Core i5-10600, 6-cores, 12-threads, 4.4/4.8GHz, 13,5MB cache (Intel 14nm++ FinFET) / Display: ASUS 24" LED VN247H (67Hz OC) 1920x1080p / GPU: Gigabyte Radeon RX Vega 56 Gaming OC @1501MHz (Samsung 14nm FinFET) / Keyboard: Logitech Desktop K120 (Nordic) / Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B460 PLUS, Socket-LGA1200 / Mouse: Razer Abyssus 2014 / PCI-E: ASRock USB 3.1/A+C (PCI Express x4) / PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA G2, 850W / RAM A1, A2, B1 & B2: DDR4-2666MHz CL13-15-15-15-35-1T "Samsung 8Gbit C-Die" (4x8GB) / Operating System: Windows 10 Home / Sound: Zombee Z300 / Storage 1 & 2: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD / Storage 3: Seagate® Barracuda 2TB HDD / Storage 4: Seagate® Desktop 2TB SSHD / Storage 5: Crucial P1 1000GB M.2 SSD/ Storage 6: Western Digital WD7500BPKX 2.5" HDD / Wi-fi: TP-Link TL-WN851N 11n Wireless Adapter (Qualcomm Atheros)

Zen-II-X6-3600+ (Gaming PC)

R23 score MC: 9893pts | R23 score SC: 1248pts @4.2GHz

R23 score MC: 10151pts | R23 score SC: 1287pts @4.3GHz

R20 score MC: 3688cb | R20 score SC: 489cb

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Case: Medion Micro-ATX Case / Case Fan Front: SUNON MagLev PF70251VX-Q000-S99 70mm / Case Fan Rear: Fanner Tech(Shen Zhen)Co.,LTD. 80mm (Purple) / Controller: Sony Dualshock 4 Wireless (DS4Windows) / Cooler: AMD Near-silent 125w Thermal Solution / CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600, 6-cores, 12-threads, 4.2/4.2GHz, 35MB cache (T.S.M.C. 7nm FinFET) / Display: HP 24" L2445w (64Hz OC) 1920x1200 / GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GD5 OC "Afterburner" @1450MHz (T.S.M.C. 28nm) / GPU: ASUS Radeon RX 6600 XT DUAL OC RDNA2 32CUs @2607MHz (T.S.M.C. 7nm FinFET) / Keyboard: HP KB-0316 PS/2 (Nordic) / Motherboard: ASRock B450M Pro4, Socket-AM4 / Mouse: Razer Abyssus 2014 / PCI-E: ASRock USB 3.1/A+C (PCI Express x4) / PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA G2, 550W / RAM A2 & B2: DDR4-3600MHz CL16-18-8-19-37-1T "SK Hynix 8Gbit CJR" (2x16GB) / Operating System: Windows 10 Home / Sound 1: Zombee Z500 / Sound 2: Logitech Stereo Speakers S-150 / Storage 1 & 2: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD / Storage 3: Western Digital My Passport 2.5" 2TB HDD / Storage 4: Western Digital Elements Desktop 2TB HDD / Storage 5: Kingston A2000 1TB M.2 NVME SSD / Wi-fi & Bluetooth: ASUS PCE-AC55BT Wireless Adapter (Intel)

Vishera-X8-9370 | R20 score MC: 1476cb

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Case: Cooler Master HAF XB Evo Black / Case Fan(s) Front: Noctua NF-A14 ULN 140mm Premium Fans / Case Fan(s) Rear: Corsair Air Series AF120 Quiet Edition (red) / Case Fan(s) Side: Noctua NF-A6x25 FLX 60mm Premium Fan / Case Fan VRM: SUNON MagLev KDE1209PTV3 92mm / Controller: Sony Dualshock 4 Wireless (DS4Windows) / Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo / CPU: AMD FX-8370 (Base: @4.4GHz | Turbo: @4.7GHz) Black Edition Eight-Core (Global Foundries 32nm) / Display: ASUS 24" LED VN247H (67Hz OC) 1920x1080p / GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GD5 OC "Afterburner" @1450MHz (T.S.M.C. 28nm) / GPU: Gigabyte Radeon RX Vega 56 Gaming OC @1501MHz (Samsung 14nm FinFET) / Keyboard: Logitech Desktop K120 (Nordic) / Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING, Socket-AM3+ / Mouse: Razer Abyssus 2014 / PCI-E: ASRock USB 3.1/A+C (PCI Express x4) / PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA G2, 850W PSU / RAM 1, 2, 3 & 4: Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1866MHz CL8-10-10-28-37-2T (4x4GB) 16.38GB / Operating System 1: Windows 10 Home / Sound: Zombee Z300 / Storage 1: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD (x2) / Storage 2: Seagate® Barracuda 2TB HDD / Storage 3: Seagate® Desktop 2TB SSHD / Wi-fi: TP-Link TL-WN951N 11n Wireless Adapter

Godavari-X4-880K | R20 score MC: 810cb

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Case: Medion Micro-ATX Case / Case Fan Front: SUNON MagLev PF70251VX-Q000-S99 70mm / Case Fan Rear: Fanner Tech(Shen Zhen)Co.,LTD. 80mm (Purple) / Controller: Sony Dualshock 4 Wireless (DS4Windows) / Cooler: AMD Near-silent 95w Thermal Solution / Cooler: AMD Near-silent 125w Thermal Solution / CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K Black Edition Elite Quad-Core (T.S.M.C. 28nm) / CPU: AMD Athlon X4 880K Black Edition Elite Quad-Core (T.S.M.C. 28nm) / Display: HP 19" Flat Panel L1940 (75Hz) 1280x1024 / GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SuperSC 2GB (T.S.M.C. 28nm) / GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GD5 OC "Afterburner" @1450MHz (T.S.M.C. 28nm) / Keyboard: HP KB-0316 PS/2 (Nordic) / Motherboard: MSI A78M-E45 V2, Socket-FM2+ / Mouse: Razer Abyssus 2014 / PCI-E: ASRock USB 3.1/A+C (PCI Express x4) / PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA G2, 550W PSU / RAM 1, 2, 3 & 4: SK hynix DDR3-1866MHz CL9-10-11-27-40 (4x4GB) 16.38GB / Operating System 1: Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) / Operating System 2: Windows 10 Home / Sound 1: Zombee Z500 / Sound 2: Logitech Stereo Speakers S-150 / Storage 1: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD (x2) / Storage 2: Western Digital My Passport 2.5" 2TB HDD / Storage 3: Western Digital Elements Desktop 2TB HDD / Wi-fi: TP-Link TL-WN851N 11n Wireless Adapter

Acer Aspire 7738G custom (changed CPU, GPU & Storage)
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CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, 2-cores, 2-threads, 2.4GHz, 3MB cache (Intel 45nm) / GPU: ATi Radeon HD 4570 515MB DDR2 (T.S.M.C. 55nm) / RAM: DDR2-1066MHz CL7-7-7-20-1T (2x2GB) / Operating System: Windows 10 Home / Storage: Crucial BX500 480GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5" SSD

Complete portable device SoC history:

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Apple A4 - Apple iPod touch (4th generation)
Apple A5 - Apple iPod touch (5th generation)
Apple A9 - Apple iPhone 6s Plus
HiSilicon Kirin 810 (T.S.M.C. 7nm) - Huawei P40 Lite / Huawei nova 7i
Mediatek MT2601 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - TicWatch E
Mediatek MT6580 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - TECNO Spark 2 (1GB RAM)
Mediatek MT6592M (T.S.M.C 28nm) - my|phone my32 (orange)
Mediatek MT6592M (T.S.M.C 28nm) - my|phone my32 (yellow)
Mediatek MT6735 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - HMD Nokia 3 Dual SIM
Mediatek MT6737 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - Cherry Mobile Flare S6
Mediatek MT6739 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - my|phone myX8 (blue)
Mediatek MT6739 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - my|phone myX8 (gold)
Mediatek MT6750 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - honor 6C Pro / honor V9 Play
Mediatek MT6765 (T.S.M.C 12nm) - TECNO Pouvoir 3 Plus
Mediatek MT6797D (T.S.M.C 20nm) - my|phone Brown Tab 1
Qualcomm MSM8926 (T.S.M.C. 28nm) - Microsoft Lumia 640 LTE
Qualcomm MSM8974AA (T.S.M.C. 28nm) - Blackberry Passport
Qualcomm SDM710 (Samsung 10nm) - Oppo Realme 3 Pro

 

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Waiting on everything to show up on my door step today while I'm at work! Never been so excited for a shitty ass computer. LOL Hopefully it all arrives today!

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The UPS Fairy came guys;

 

Uploading all the pictures now, sorry for my sloppy crappy camera skills.

 

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So first I'll start with showing the boxes. It was a beautiful site to behold. The desk everything is on is a desk I had in a spare room, still saving up money to do the shelving project, and this desk will go back in the guest bedroom, but for now, it will be used for the new computer.

 

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Let's start unboxing these puppies!!

 

The case was a bit... Smaller than anticipated to be honest. Actually. MUCH smaller than anticipated... But I like it.

It's a decent build quality and has a nice sleek minimalist look to it. Fits nice.

 

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The motherboard was as expected. Clean lines and clean looks. All black motherboard. Just the way I like my motherboards.

 

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Getting the Motherboard in this case was done with ease. So far building in the case hasn't been a big issue at all. Quite easy actually.

Getting the PSU in this case was a bit of a different story. A heads up, you will want to install the PSU in the case FIRST. My PSU would NOT fit in properly for two reasons, I couldn't slide it up onto its stands, one reason because I had to bend the tab to the appropriate height for my PSU to sit, it was bent up a bit... The other reason being that the motherboard isn't exactly in the way, but it seemed that it would be much easier to get the PSU in without the motherboard in quite yet.

Cable management in this case was a nightmare... If you're looking for neat cables, good luck!! I tried and ended up giving up!

 

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Time to get this beefy GPU in!

 

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Good god! Getting this GPU in was a mother fucken bitch!!! Jesus! You have literally almost no room! And because I'm one of those people who is willing to be a little forceful with their hardware I was able to BARELY manage to get this GPU in this case. LITERALLY BARELY. The heatpipe is literally TOUCHING the side of the hard drive cage that is riveted in place.

 

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Don't even begin to ask me how I got the 8 pin power connector in!!!

 

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Ok ok, I'll tell you, I forced it in. I bent the hard drive cage to fit the 8 pin connector, then pushed it into the gpu by pushing the bent part of the hard drive cage to push the pins into the GPU. Yes. That's exactly what I did, and here is what it looks like.

 

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We posted perfectly and got windows 8.1 installed. Activated, and then Windows 10 installed. Drivers installed and games being installed.

 

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I'm not so great at glam photos, so here is what the whole desk now looks like.

 

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And then I finally figured out how to turn on the keyboard lights :)

 

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Windows 10 completely installed and everything running smoothly! Going to run 3DMark before I go to bed tonight :)

 

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3DMark Firestrike just completed, here is the results.

 

FX-6300 stock speed, AMD Stock Cooler

R9 380 stock speed, Asus Strix

Mushkin DDR3 8GB RAM

 

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Wow, do these pictures look incredibly small to anyone else? They are supposed to be like 640x800... Wth happened, they was big yesterday.

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Wow, do these pictures look incredibly small to anyone else? They are supposed to be like 640x800... Wth happened, they was big yesterday.

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Oh, good. Thank you. How come earlier in my thread someone said they are really small as well though? Way back in the beginning.

All those pictures look fine to me, but I was uploading these recent ones off the new computer. Got on my work computer and look at them and they are super tiny... 180x102...

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Oh, good. Thank you. How come earlier in my thread someone said they are really small as well though? Way back in the beginning.

All those pictures look fine to me, but I was uploading these recent ones off the new computer. Got on my work computer and look at them and they are super tiny... 180x102...

Not sure, I'm scrolling up looking through them in this page and they're all at 360x640.

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Not sure, I'm scrolling up looking through them in this page and they're all at 360x640.

 

Well, what you think of that GPU Fitment? loool. 

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Well, what you think of that GPU Fitment? loool. 

It's perfect! :lol:

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Lol that GPU... That made my day :D

Well, that's just one of the perks of building your own machine! Each home-built PC has its own crazy quirks! I love it

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Lol that GPU... That made my day :D

Well, that's just one of the perks of building your own machine! Each home-built PC has its own crazy quirks! I love it

 

It was fun getting all kinds of cuts installing it :P 

I still have no idea how I got it in. I broke physics. I broke real life.

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Ok guys, I need some help deciding... 

 

I'm going to leave the walls the same color, but what fireplace should I go with? The one currently in place is fed by a propane line, which, I never use... So I'm going to destroy the whole fireplace and replace it with an electric fireplace.

 

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Be honest with me guys, what would go best in it's place? Both the fireplaces below are pretty much the same size as the one in the picture above, which is the one that is going to be destroyed. What color carpet should I go with as well. It will be replaced with a fluffy soft one, or replaced with a cheap carpet which I would then put a fluffy rug down in the center of the couches and table.

 

PLEASE HELP ME! I CAN'T DECIDE!

 

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Ok guys, I need some help deciding...

I'm going to leave the walls the same color, but what fireplace should I go with? The one currently in place is fed by a propane line, which, I never use... So I'm going to destroy the whole fireplace and replace it with an electric fireplace.

Be honest with me guys, what would go best in it's place? Both the fireplaces below are pretty much the same size as the one in the picture above, which is the one that is going to be destroyed. What color carpet should I go with as well. It will be replaced with a fluffy soft one, or replaced with a cheap carpet which I would then put a fluffy rug down in the center of the couches and table.

PLEASE HELP ME! I CAN'T DECIDE!

I think the white one would look better. Also, if you are going to make a couple of cabine's into the wall then the white stands out more, instead of an dark center.
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I think the white one would look better. Also, if you are going to make a couple of cabine's into the wall then the white stands out more, instead of an dark center.

 

That's what I'm thinking, but I'm also trying to figure out what color footing and crowning I should do for the room. If the shelves are going to be a brown, maybe a dark brown, and the walls are light brown. What am I doing for the carpet, footing, and crowning.. dark brown footing and crowning? To match the rest of the houses trim? And maybe go with a gray fluffy carpet? Or a gray cheap carpet and get a white fluffy rug?

 

protip; please snip out the photo's when quoting, it makes for less scrolling and, we don't need to see the pictures twice

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The one on the right, imo. The wood-coloured one. Here's what you should do. Take a picture in your mind of your living room, but mentally replace the mantle with the white one, then the wood one, then the white one again. Then tell me what you think.
 

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Honestly the wood one, in my mind, would blend well with the overall colour scheme of the room, whereas the white one would stick out like a sore thumb.

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Kinda like when you take off a bandaid that's been on your finger for about a week and the skin underneath is pasty white and tender, and the rest of your skin is a more normal colour.

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The white is more modern

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The one on the right, imo. The wood-coloured one. Here's what you should do. Take a picture in your mind of your living room, but mentally replace the mantle with the white one, then the wood one, then the white one again. Then tell me what you think.

 

 

The white is more modern

 

Watchout, incoming "pro" photoshop skills.

 

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I think I like the brown

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